Burton Agnes Hall has passed by inheritance since 1610, and its builder's daughter is said to be bricked into a wall

Kind 2, with the house's ownership record. Sir Henry Griffith built Burton Agnes Hall from 1601 to 1610 to designs attributed to Robert Smythson. The hall's own account says his youngest daughter, Katherine (Anne) Griffith, was attacked and robbed by ruffians near St John's Well at Harpham, was carried home and died a few days later in 1620. Before she died she made her sisters promise to keep her head in the house. They buried her whole in the churchyard. The legend says the house was then disturbed until the sisters had the grave opened and the skull brought indoors. It was thrown out once and buried in the garden once, and each time the noise returned. It is said to be bricked into a wall, probably in the Great Hall; no one knows where. John Ingram (1897) and the County Folk-Lore volume of 1911 printed different versions of the attack, and Mysterious Britain notes the skull's origin is unknown. Sir Henry's daughter Frances married Sir Matthew Boynton, and the estate passed to their son Francis after her death in 1634. The Boyntons held it until Marcus Wickham-Boynton left it in 1989 to a distant cousin, Simon Cunliffe-Lister. It is now owned by a preservation trust and managed by his family.